March 29, 2024

On This Day in Space! Jan. 19, 2006: New Horizons launches to Pluto!

On Jan. 19, 2006, NASAs New Horizons spacecraft launched aboard an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, bound for a flyby of Pluto to take place on July 14, 2015. New Horizons took the very first close-up pictures of Pluto, and for the very first time, the world saw that Pluto has an enormous heart. Still not sufficient area?